Google Internal Politics Leave It Playing Catch-Up on AI Coding

At Google, leaders are anxious about falling behind in the race to offer AI coding tools, especially as rivals like Anthropic PBC offer more effective and popular tools to businesses, according to people familiar with the matter. The search giant is now working to unite some of its coding initiatives under one banner to speed progress and take advantage of a surge in customer interest.

In some corners of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, particularly AI lab DeepMind, concerns about the company’s position are mounting, according to current and former employees and executives, who declined to be named because they weren’t ...